I guess recovery week means lesser effort rather than fewer workouts. I straddled the line between the two this week tweaking away as is the norm. No travel for hubby this week but yucky cold and wet weather coupled with evening commitments made for another week of switcharoos. I won't bore you with the details but here's the round up depicting the prescribed plan in bold and what actually went down following.
Monday - Day 15 - Rest - 1 hour, PowerOne Cycling class (indoor bike on trainer)
Tuesday - Day 16 - 1:30 Bike easy - Rest since I did hard class yesterday (and have birthday brownie/ice cream dessert) :)
Wednesday - Day 17 - Rest or swim 900M - 1000M swim (10min time trial w/o warmup: 300M, 100k, 100p, 10min time trial warmed up: 400M, 100k)
Thursday - Day 18 - 1:15 Bike easy - thought I'd wake up early and knock this out but sleep felt too good. A little regretful since fitting in for the rest of the week will be tough. Birthday happy hour will make early Friday workout a little more difficult too.
Friday - Day 19 - Rest - Um, yea...I swear they put everclear in those margaritas. Rest it is.
Saturday - Day 20 30 min Swim, 850M - Feeling guilty for all the rest days, pulled the trainer in and did Thursday's workout. About 14 miles...I started with easy effort and then pulled out all the stops in the last half hour because...me.
Sunday - Day 21 1:30 Run Z1-3 - I was hoping to leave the house early and get the "or swim" from Wednesday in before the long run. I forgot how toddlers wake up at the crack of dawn full of energy. Hubby got my distress signal late morning (he's so awesome) and took the whole crew out so that mom can have a "free" day. No nails, shopping or massage but rather a solid 2 hours of putting my house back in order from 2 littles (I'm looking at you, Mateo aka Monster-teo) transporting random household items to all the places they don't belong. A good solid 20 minutes were spent looking for remotes, not even joking. Is it in the trash? (dig through trash) Did he put it in the snack drawer? (dig through drawer and reorganize the mess) What about the shoe basket? Oh, no...is it in the washing machine? High cardio, super fast hide and seek and put stuff back before I lose time to run counts for a workout right?
All this, followed by the prescribed hour and a half run. A little over 9 miles that I couldn't keep below Z4 because that would be walking? How is that possible? Anyway, it was a non issue because Garmin went dead before I made 3 miles. Pace was fairly slow so I know I didn't over do it and given it was the longest run since my injury, I'm feeling pretty good. Success!!
So how'd I measure up? Well, I didn't do the extra swim and never made it around to Yoga and the foam roll effort really was pathetic. But all the other stuff was done!
Coming up this week are brick workouts (8 total workouts +- 6-7 hours), crappy weather (cold, wet and dreary) and a travelling hubby. Great recipe for getting it done dontcha think?
Here we go!
Happy Monday all!
Valerie
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